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JAROCIN, ROCK FOR FREEDOM

POLISH TITLE: JAROCIN, PO CO WOLNOŚĆ

The film is a music documentary about one of the most important festivals of alternative music organised in Jarocin. Rock fans can treat it as a sentimental journey to the past, not only thanks to video archives or recollections of music idols, but, above all, because of the rock soundtrack, which includes the performances of such groups as Kult, TSA and Siekiera among others. While the younger viewers will have an opportunity to find out what the festival and its audience used to look like, everyone will receive a fair portion of the history of communist Poland.

GENRE:
documentary
COUNTRY:
Polska
RUNNING TIME:
108'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Marek Gajczak, Leszek Gnoiński
SCRIPT:
Marek Gajczak, Leszek Gnoiński
DOP:
Marek Gajczak, Wojciech Słota, Jerzy Pawleta
EDITOR:
Marek Gajczak
SOUND:
Michał Fojcik
PRODUCTION:
Stowarzyszenie Film Kraków

Marek Gajczak »

He was born in 1966. He is a graduate of the Cinematography Department at the Film School in Łódź. He also completed the Masterclass for DOP, a cinematographic workshop in Budapest. In 2006 he debuted as a director and screenwriter with the feature film "Under the Surface". He has collaborated with TVN and the Polish Television. Having completed several dozen documentaries, he currently works as an author of photography and a documentary film director.

Leszek Gnoiński »

Music journalist. He wrote, among others, for: “Dziennik”, “Machina”, “Super Express” (in the mid-90s he co-created the biggest rock column in Polish national newspapers), “Tylko Rock”, “Muza” musical magazine (he was deputy editor in chief), www.cgm.pl portal (he was also its editor in chief) and “Dziennik Polski”. During this time he conducted hundreds of interviews with nearly all of the most important Polish musicians, not only those related to rock music. He wrote musical books, which were sold in 70,000 copies: Raport o Acid Drinkers [Report on Acid Drinkers] (1996), the bestseller Kult Kazika [The Cult of Kazik] (2000), Myslovitz. Życie to surfing [Myslovitz. Life is Surfing] (2009). Together with Jan Skaradziński he wrote the unique position on the Polish market Encyklopedia polskiego rocka [The Encyclopaedia of Polish Rock], which has had four editions so far (first edition in 1996; another is planned in 2010). Together with Wojtek Słota he produced a six-episode TV series titled Historia polskiego rocka [The History of Polish Rock] (2008) for the Discovery channel and a full-length film Beats of Freedom – Zew wolności (2010). 

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